Prof. Ulrich Schmid

Speaker at the St. Gallen Symposium

Ulrich Schmid is a distinguished academic and the current Professor of Eastern European Studies at the University of St Gallen in Switzerland. Prior to his current position, he held academic positions at the Ruhr University Bochum, the Institute for Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Bern, and the Slavic Seminar at the University of Basel. He has also been a guest researcher at the University of Oslo and a visiting fellow at Harvard University's Slavic Department. His research interests span a wide range of topics, including politics and media in Russia and Eastern Europe, and Eastern European literature and culture. His most recent publications include "Regionalism without Regions: Reconceptualizing Ukraine's Heterogeneity" (2019) and "De Profundis: On the Failure of the Russian Revolution" (2017). Schmid completed his doctorate in 1995 with a thesis on Fedor Sologub at the University of Basel, where he later earned his habilitation with a thesis on Russian autobiographies in 1999.